Manuscripts
August Wilhelm Wern reminiscences
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James Franklin Burns reminiscences
Manuscripts
Burns details his move from Michigan to California in 1853. He also discusses his time as L.A. Chief of Police and County Sheriff including crimes that were committed while he held these positions and criminals he helped prosecute. Burns also talks about his actions during the 1871 Chinese Massacre in Chinatown and politics in California and Los Angeles.
mssHM 66765
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Wilhelm, Christina
Manuscripts
The collection consists of maps, field books, legal documents, business papers, and diaries related to the work of surveyors George Hansen, Alfred Solano, Sidney B. Reeve, and others. The maps and surveys in the collection are of the city of Los Angeles, Southern California ranchos, and subdivisions of the city of Los Angeles and neighboring towns. The collection contains over maps and sketch maps. Other subjects represented in the collection include: civil engineering, land subdivision, mines and mineral resources, and daily life in Los Angeles and Los Angeles County.
mssSolano
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Early memories: [reminiscences]
Manuscripts
This photocopy of a typescript written by Herbert E. Lougheed a few years before his death, was for his son and daughter about his early memories in Los Angeles from the 1870s-1880s.
mssHM 80473
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Louis Zindel memoir
Manuscripts
This short memoir, which was written by Zindel's granddaughter Charlotte R. Brackelsberg, talks about Zindel's youth in Prussia, his meeting with John Charles Frémont in St. Louis in 1842, and their expedition to California. Brackelsberg also talks about Kit Carson and the group's howitzer cannon.
mssHM 68058
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Reminiscences of California : an autograph manuscript
Manuscripts
Welsh wrote reminiscences of his journey to, and life in California in the 1880s and 90s. There is particular emphasis on citrus orchard management and labor in Southern California and a cattle drive or autumn round-up from the Rancho Los Cerritos. Also included are descriptions of cities and towns in Southern California encompassing people, geology, climate, flora and fauna. Excursions in and around Southern California are well described including trips to Long Beach, Santa Monica, Catalina Island and Death Valley.
mssHM 16371
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Thomas Day reminiscences
Manuscripts
This is a typescript collected by Juanita Broooks from a manuscript loaned by Fannie Stott. It describes Thomas Day's early childhood in England working at various factories to suppport his family; his conversion to Mormonism; his work as a missionary in England; the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean; his life in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and in Utah at Kanarraville, Circleville, Saint George, Salt Lake City, and Spanish Fork; and his contact with Native Americans while a missionary and in traveling.
mssHM 66576